Number Of Homeless In The Shelter System Reaches Record High Posted on February 1, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Gothamist According to data collected by Coalition for the Homeless, more than 60,000 people—25,000 of them children—will sleep in the city’s shelter system tonight, an increase of 10,000 from when de Blasio took office a year ago. The mayor inherited the epid ..Read More
Council Members Push for Housing Counsel, Citing Garner Posted on December 5, 2014 by Jacquelyn Simone in Capital New York Council members Mark Levine and Vanessa Gibson pushed for increased funding for legal counsel for low-income tenants at a press conference on Friday, casting it as part of a broader battle for social justice. ..Read More
Ion, Dean Cain Join Coalition for the Homeless Posted on December 1, 2014 by Jacquelyn Simone in Multichannel News Merry Ex-Mas star Dean Cain and Ion Television are set to partner up with Coalition for the Homeless, an advocacy and direct service organization, where 1,500 gourmet sandwich wraps will be donated through the Grand Central Food Program on Dec. 2 at 5:30 p.m., ..Read More
Bronx Lawmaker Seeks Bill to Make it Harder for the City to Open Homeless Shelters Posted on November 30, 2014 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News State Sen. Jeffrey Klein wants more time for neighborhoods to review proposals. Advocates said the bill would slow down housing for the very needy. A Bronx lawmaker will introduce controversial legislation Monday to force the city to alert communities before ..Read More
This is How New York’s Record-Breaking Homeless Population Celebrates Thanksgiving Posted on November 27, 2014 by Jacquelyn Simone in VICE The grim reality is that Thanksgiving 2014 represents a landmark occasion for New York City’s poor. Gotham is now experiencing Great Depression levels of homelessness, with nearly 60,000 humans sleeping inside shelters, on the streets, or down b ..Read More
Congratulations to First Step Classes 124 and 125! Posted on November 20, 2014 by Jacquelyn Simone On Wednesday, November 5th, family, friends and staff gathered at the offices of Hughes Hubbard and Reed, LLP, to celebrate the 33 remarkable women who successfully completed the First Step Job Training Program. The women of classes 124 and 125 spent 14 weeks ..Read More
PIX11 rides along with Coalition for the Homeless as they help those in need Posted on November 18, 2014 by Jacquelyn Simone in Pix11 At St. Bartholomew’s Church in Midtown, the non-profit “Coalition For The Homeless” loads up vans full of food to distribute each night, part of what they call their “Grand Central Food Program.” Juan De La Cruz is the organizer for the program. He ..Read More
Why I Volunteer With The Grand Central Food Program Posted on October 29, 2014 by Arvind Singh Arvind Singh, a Senior Analyst at AIG, started volunteering with the Grand Central Food Program in 2004. Below, he shares why he has been such a steadfast GCFP volunteer for a decade. For almost 10 years, I’ve had the opportunity of volunteering as a dri ..Read More
The Coalition Thanks Our GCFP Volunteers Posted on October 22, 2014 by Jacquelyn Simone Every single night of the year, the dedicated volunteers of the Grand Central Food Program (GCFP) help the Coalition serve 1,000 hot, nutritious meals to our homeless neighbors on the streets of NYC. But at our Volunteer Appreciation Party on Friday, October 1 ..Read More
